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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West
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Blood and thunder : an epic of the American West / Hampton Sides.
ISBN
0385507771
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Physical Description
xi, 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Maps on endpapers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 26, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-440) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Hoofbeats
THE NEW MEN: Jumping off
The glittering world
The army of the West
Singing grass
Blue Bead Mountain
Who is James K. Polk?
What a wild life!
The ruling hand of providence
The pathfinder
When the land is sick
The un-Alamo
We will correct all this
Narbona Pass
The uninvaded silence
On the altar of the country
A perfect butchery
The fire of Montezuma
Your duty, Mr. Carson
Daggers in every look
Men with ears down to their ankles
The hall of final ruin
A BROKEN COUNTRY: The grim metronome
Lords of the mountains
The devil's turnpike
Our red children
Cold steel
El Crepusculo
American mercury
Time at last sets all things even
The finest head I ever saw
The death knot
Men without eyes
Blood and thunder
MONSTER SLAYER: The fearing time
People of the single star
The sons of some dear mother
The round forest
Children of the mist
General orders no. 15
Fortress rock
The long walk
Adobe walls
The condition of the tribes
Crossing purgatory
Epilogue: In beauty we walk.
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